TIK2O, Computer and Information Science,
Grade 10, Open, (1 credit)

What You Will Learn in This Course:
This course will introduce basic computer programming and web development concepts and techniques. Students will develop and apply problem solving and analytical thinking skills. They will use Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) to create and modify webpages. Students will learn about the stages in software design: the fundamental programming constructs of sequence, selection, and repetition. They are introduced to Java Script as a modern Object Oriented Scripting Language to create interactive webpages.

Major Topics:

HTML
1. Basic tags
2. Text formatting tags
3. Creating Lists and Indenting
4. Creating Links (page, button, email)
5. Images (format, links), transparent images, animated gifs, image maps
6. Tables, frames and forms
7. Style Sheets (text format, page layout)
8. DHTML

JavaScript
1. Introducing JavaScript, object oriented programming, Java versus JavaScript

2. objects and methods, event handlers, Alert window, Confirm window, Prompt window, comment lines in a JavaScript program, noscript element

3. JavaScript colors, event handlers: onFocus, onBlur, onClick, onReset, onSubmit, onAbort, onChange, onSelect

4. variables, assignment statements, variable names, types of variables, declaring variables, list of reserved variable names, if ... else statements, comparison operators, logical operators, multiple conditions, rounding off numbers

5. Document Object Model

6. Control Structures (Sequence, Selection and loops)

7. window events, status bar, scrolling text, onMouseOver and onMouseOut event handlers

8. layering objects with DHTML, absolute and relative positioning, 3D text